Postal Service Shams

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This thread has been created for all to post their postal experiences that have either annoyed or created problems for you.


Usually my postman is alright, granted he doesn't start his rounds till 3pm instead of the morning, so nobody is ever home when he's dropping off parcels, this results in either dropping the parcel off with a neighbour (most of the time this happens) OR he takes it to a post office (usually the main one in town)

but i got home on wednesday and saw that my parcel had been sent to "birdsfoot lane" now my old junior school is near birdsfoot lane, its not a small bit of road but there's loads of shops.... after driving up and down looking for a post office i was about to head home when i noticed the co-op my mate works at has a "post office" sign above it. took my chances and had a look in there. sure enough a postal area has been erected in a corner of the store. looked at the time 17.25, looked at the start and finish times of the post office part, 17.30 but the blinds where down and 2 little middle ages women where locking up, so i said "hey hang on its not halfpast and i have a parcel in there" to which the nearest woman replied "urgh, emm... the.. we go by the clock on the, erm, safe." before the two hags scuttled out of the doors.

Not amused at all i've made not of this and will return there tonight, hopefully around 17.20 and the aim is to ask for their names and complain as they've screwed me over, could have had my parcel but to old hags wanted to knock off early.

Really grinds my gears ¬___¬
 
Postal services are shite, sorry to hear about the DSi stu, did you claim it back under postal insurance?

Nearly everytime i import something it turns up OPENED, but held together with 2 white bags that've been fashioned into some sort of rope and cross tied round the box. i have a feeling its immigration doing this, but seriously... look at the front of the box, the distributers have put exactly whats in the box on a green slip of paper, any mug with half an ounce of brain capacity would read the front before opening peoples post.

i'd call and complain that its probably a breacvh of my privacy (as opening other peoples post is infact illegal) but i have a feeling they'll either put the fone down or say "it was a matter of national security" ... yeah because a nendoroid's gun is really going to hurt someone, i swear they have Xray machines in postal? Maybe they just back pocket things they find.

Bastards
 
Maxon said:
So you think it would be unreasonable for them to search your stuff when they're looking for illegal goods in the first place? Really?
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Search it with an Xray, don't bloody open my mail, who would i push the blame to should anything become damaged due to them opening it and looking about?

thats what i'm saying, sure have a look and make sure nobodies bringing something into the country that they shouldn't, but if you've got a xray machine these days that can show people practically naked. use it on the bloody parcel.
 
Someone at work received a bag with a 'sorry for the damaged goods' message on it through the mail - inside was the front of an envelope. The contents and back of the envelope were missing.
 
As well as for security, Her Majesty's representatives can also open parcels to check that the customs value declared on the outside of the box matches their perceived value of its contents. If you don't want this to happen, order from inside the UK and your items should be unmolested.

Having said that I order a vast amount of stuff from overseas and I can't remember the last time I had something opened up at all. Perhaps the company you were buying from was under suspicion already for marking the incorrect values down so they were spot checking?

It's sort of hard to tell the difference between a used Britney Spears CD and a super expensive mint condition rare CD (example), so of course they have to open the box if they're suspicious and have to verify the contents and value. It's annoying, but that's how things are here.

mangaman74's destroyed letter sounds the most annoying. Hopefully the recipient could at least identify the sender from the tattered remains?

R
 
Maxon said:
So you think it would be unreasonable for them to search your stuff when they're looking for illegal goods in the first place? Really?
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I think it's unreasonable for goods to be illegal in the first place.
 
I hate the fact that our post (None RM) sometimes gets brought to the house and if we're not in, they put it in the garage. Now normally that's a reasonable idea to do to protect the item (or take it back to the post office station again). But even with a cleared up desk, they put the buggers in all sorts of hiding places - between some spray cans + window sill, under the table... JUST PUT IT ON TOP!!!!
 
As mentioned in my introduction thread, I run a videogames website, I sometimes manage to get review code from the publishers. On occassion these have gone missing, hell once I came home (as its all delivered to my home address) to find a bunch of parcel's stuffed behind my wheely bin with about 6 games in them...
 
ayase said:
I think it's unreasonable for goods to be illegal in the first place.
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Heh.

In 10+ years of shopping online I've only ever had one package opened by customs, and that was presumably because the store didn't affix a customs declaration label. And, of all things, it was an adult visual novel from Jast... which was, thankfully, sent on to me.
 
Anyone who's ever had to pick up a parcel from the post office knows that they'll check your ID....

Well get a load of this:

On saturday i went to the post office in town, went to get a parcel that had been returned to the branch as nobody was about to sign for it. the woman said "this parcel is for a Mrs. ********, not a man. so i said " my mums in the car parking,

*shows her my ID*

she confirms that the address matches but says no still because i could be an ex husband....... at which point i said "recheck the D.O.B"

She finally understands that the chances of a 20y/o being married and divorcing so young is pretty low... so gives me the parcel.

2 parcels are elastic banded together.... i passed them across to my mum, who then passed one back to me and said "its yours"

now here's my gripe..... after so much messing around with ID's and things.... she passes me 2 parcels together, one's my mums and ones mine..... if they knew that the addresses where the same and that i had a parcel too.... why the hell mess around? just pass em across ¬___¬

the royal mail just like wasting peoples time.
 
Yet show the ID of the person the parcel is for and they'll give you the parcel, even if you're clearly not them.

It all makes perfect sense.
 
Checking in.

I recently ordered a phrenological head from a delightful chap on eBay. I should mention now that I've been having all my deliveries sent to my grandfathers home, as his neighbours always accept goods (it being a neighbourhood with a lot of pensioners), and due to my chagrin of having to go all the way to the sorting depot every other week...

Anyway; the halfwit of a RM lackey took it upon himself to start flinging the packages through the conservatory window, as opposed to knocking on a neighbours door to let them hold onto it. God knows why, though Royal Mail postman logic isn't know for its logic, as many in this thread shall testify to.

The moron throws my porcelain head through the conservatory window, shattering it to pieces, despite the words 'fragile' being very clearly marked upon the parcel.

/rage
 
Our postman since we've moved. I've watched him twice now come to the flat (it's 4 flats in one building), not even press our buzzer, but he just straight away puts the red letter notification thing through the letterbox. And 90% of the time these parcels are small, so. I'm starting to think he doesn't even bring any parcels out for his delivery, he just leaves them at the collection office before even coming out. And also he spits on the floor all the time, which has nothing to do with post etc but just makes me think eurgh. Hmm.
 
Kirsty said:
Our postman since we've moved. I've watched him twice now come to the flat (it's 4 flats in one building), not even press our buzzer, but he just straight away puts the red letter notification thing through the letterbox. And 90% of the time these parcels are small, so. I'm starting to think he doesn't even bring any parcels out for his delivery, he just leaves them at the collection office before even coming out. And also he spits on the floor all the time, which has nothing to do with post etc but just makes me think eurgh. Hmm.
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Open the door just before he does it :lol:
 
Paradox295 said:
Kirsty said:
Our postman since we've moved. I've watched him twice now come to the flat (it's 4 flats in one building), not even press our buzzer, but he just straight away puts the red letter notification thing through the letterbox. And 90% of the time these parcels are small, so. I'm starting to think he doesn't even bring any parcels out for his delivery, he just leaves them at the collection office before even coming out. And also he spits on the floor all the time, which has nothing to do with post etc but just makes me think eurgh. Hmm.
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Open the door just before he does it :lol:
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Dressed as Bin Laden

Yup.... i went there.
 
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